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WikiLeaks donations by Visa are allowed once more in Iceland after a three-year blockage. The ruling comes from the country’s Supreme Court. According to the verdict, Valitor, the Visa subcontractor, had unlawfully terminated its contract with DataCell, WikiLeaks’ donation processor, ITNews reports. ... |
25 April 2013
03:06 GMT |
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It’s not your usual political party, but Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks Party actually has chances to occupy Senate seats representing Australian areas Victoria and New South Wales.
A poll taken recently on a national level found that 26 percent of those of voting age said they were likely to vote for the W... |
23 April 2013
08:34 GMT |
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WikiLeaks has posted a transcript of a secret meeting held between Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange in 2011. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss ideas for an upcoming book that is to be published this month. The leak is conveniently timed, since the publishing date of “The New Digital Worl... |
19 April 2013
08:40 GMT |
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WikiLeaks' has published, or rather, made available some 1.7 million US diplomatic cables dating from the 1970s. This latest leak isn't exactly a leak, since the documents are already available publicly.
But Wikileaks has developed a search engine that makes it possible to make sense of all of them.
While... |
8 April 2013
08:25 GMT |
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The Bradley Manning trial is finally underway and with a bang. He pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges, admitting that he was the source of the Wikileaks data and also revealing that he tried to go to a few major papers first.
He pleaded not guilty to the most serious charge, "aiding the enemy," which can carry a ... |
1 March 2013
09:11 GMT |
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A story published a couple of days ago on Indymedia UK, allegedly by Guardian journalist Conal Urquhart, revealed that Julian Assange – the founder of WikiLeaks – has been arrested. As it turns out, the story is a hoax. “Sources close to this reporter have confirmed that WikiLeaks founder and inter... |
7 January 2013
02:52 GMT |
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Baltasar Garzon, the lawyer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, claims that his client must leave the Ecuadorian embassy, where he’s currently residing, as it could have serious consequences on his health.
The Indo Asian News Service informs that Assange is trying to maintain his physical shape by running on ... |
12 November 2012
10:50 GMT |
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The Bradley Manning case is finally moving forwards, of sorts. The US soldier accused of providing WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified documents has been held captive for a couple of years now. Yet charges against him have only been brought forward earlier this year.
Now he is trying to speed up the p... |
8 November 2012
05:44 GMT |
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After some Anonymous hackers have issued a statement to reveal the fact that they will turn their backs on WikiLeaks because of the donation “paywall” and because it has become a one-man show that’s more about Julian Assange than freedom of information, the whistleblower website’s founder came... |
17 October 2012
02:53 GMT |
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As each week goes by, we seem to have more and more interesting topics for our security briefs. In the past few days a number of important events occurred in the world of information security, but in this article we’ll focus on three main elements: WikiLeaks, cyberattacks on US banks, and the controversial Phil... |
14 October 2012
01:11 GMT |
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Anonymous and WikiLeaks have had their ups and downs before, but in the end they always settled their disputes. Now, some of the hacktivists have decided to stop supporting the whistleblower site because it no longer stands for the ideals it once used to.
Anonymous has been pretty disappointed with WikiLeaks in the ... |
12 October 2012
02:52 GMT |
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Yesterday, users who wanted to access the Stratfor Global Intelligence files on WikiLeaks were met with a popup screen that requested donations. Anonymous was not happy with the decision to implement what they called a “paywall” and asked the whistleblower site to remove it immediately. Judging by a scre... |
11 October 2012
03:17 GMT |
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In a meeting they had on Thursday, Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino Aroca asked UK Foreign Secretary William Hague if authorities would allow Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange to leave the embassy to receive medical treatment. According to boston.com, this is only a hypothetical case, generated... |
28 September 2012
04:24 GMT |
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Documents released by the US Air Force in response to a freedom of information (FOI) request reveal that members of the military caught collaborating with whistleblower site WikiLeaks can be accused of “communicating with the enemy.” According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the FOI documents unveiled the... |
27 September 2012
07:44 GMT |
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The situation surrounding Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm, aka Anakata, is becoming increasingly complicated or at least confusing. He was arrested more than a week ago in Cambodia, where he was living, and is now being held and awaiting extradition.
The assumption was that he was arrested for his involvement... |
6 September 2012
11:11 GMT |
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WikiLeak's Julian Assange continues to be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He's been given asylum in Ecuador, but can't leave the embassy without getting arrested for breaching his bail conditions, by fleeing to the embassy in the first place.
Tensions were high as Ecuador announced that ... |
27 August 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Julian Assange, infamous Wikileaks creator, currently holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London, has been quiet for quite a long time, for him. Finally, he couldn't take it any longer and came out on the embassy's balcony to give one of his trademark speeches to a crowd of about 100 people and plenty of ... |
20 August 2012
09:16 GMT |
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After they have taken down WikiLeaks for a fairly long period of time by launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against it, hackers from AntiLeaks have turned their attention to two other websites: news site RT.com, and live video streaming service Bambuser.
“We can confirm a DDoS attack this... |
17 August 2012
07:04 GMT |
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Julian Assange, of Wikileaks notoriety, continues to be a controversial person, even as his fame and influence has faded somewhat. The leading figure of the whistleblowing site has an army of supporters, a small but dedicated one, and has been quick to criticize the governments of the world.
But much of the criticis... |
16 August 2012
10:15 GMT |
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WikiLeaks has been under constant attack for some while now and the whistleblower site’s representatives think they know why. They believe that it might have something to do with a mass surveillance program called TrapWire, a campaign revealed by the leaked Stratfor files.
“Attacks on wikileaks-press.org... |
13 August 2012
03:33 GMT |
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“WikiLeaks.org is down for unknown reasons. We are investigating. www.wikileaks.org is still up,” read a tweet posted by WikiLeaks on August 3.
One day later, a hacker group identifying itself on Twitter as AntiLeaks took credit for the downtime, announcing that wikileaks.org was “tango down.&rdq... |
9 August 2012
03:54 GMT |
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After a harsh exchange of tweets between Wikileaks and the AnonymousIRC account, some have reported that a “war” may have been sparked between the organizations. However, Anonymous representatives refute the claims and reassure everyone that there isn’t any conflict. It all started with this tweet ... |
17 July 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Until recently, many Anonymous supporters saw WikiLeaks as a great ally, but it turns out that not everyone was satisfied with the site’s “services.” As a result, an alternative – Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency (Par:AnoIA) – was initiated. Launched in March... |
14 July 2012
06:08 GMT |
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A few days ago, WikiLeaks published over 2 million emails allegedly obtained from Syrian officials and organizations connected to the Assad regime. The source of the large quantity of data was unknown, but a few days ago, the Anonymous community took credit for its involvement.
According to the hackers, Anonymous an... |
9 July 2012
04:07 GMT |
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Ever since WikiLeaks obtained large amounts of secret documents belonging to the US government, the Pentagon has been working on a plan to expose those who leak classified information. The solution appears to lie in “Fog Computing.” DARPA researchers have revealed that they’ve come up with a &ldquo... |
6 July 2012
10:27 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists have made public their intentions of showing their support for Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, two of the key actors behind WikiLeaks.
“We would like to offer our solidarity and support to PFC Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Bradley Manning is the US Army soldier that bravely lea... |
31 May 2012
06:39 GMT |
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The UK Supreme Court has agreed to the extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden. This means that Assange could be shipped to the Scandinavian country where he faces charges of sexual assault and rape.
However, Assange still has a chance of fighting the extradition and has two weeks to revi... |
30 May 2012
10:07 GMT |
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“WikiLeaks has been under sustained DDOS attacks over the last 72 hours. www.wikileaks.org is good, wikileaks.org is flooded,” read a tweet posted on the site’s Twitter account roughly 12 hours ago.
The identity of the individuals that have launched the attack is unknown, but the timing may indicat... |
17 May 2012
03:41 GMT |
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The Anonymous hacktivist community has released a new video to reveal the initiation of TYLER, an operation part of Project Mayhem 2012.
“With censorship bills being passed and bills that attempt to rid us of our freedoms that this country was founded upon the time has now come to act. We have devised a plan t... |
3 May 2012
05:26 GMT |
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In the past period, a number of 25 media outlets worldwide analyzed the gigabytes of data obtained by WikiLeaks from Stratfor, allegedly with the aid of Anonymous hackers. Now WikiLeaks plans on publishing all the data online under the name of The Global Intelligence Files. According to a press release from WikiLeak... |
27 February 2012
04:56 GMT |
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The much-awaited reopening of the WikiLeaks online submission system, which allows whistleblowers to anonymously share their findings, is being postponed due to some security concerns the organization will unveil in detail on December 1.
According to a post entitled “Online security and the reopening of the su... |
28 November 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Secrets spilling website WikiLeaks has lost a copy of the unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables, possibly exposing US agents in Israel, Jordan and Iran.According to German newspaper Der Spiegel, when former WikiLeaks spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg left the whistleblowing organization in September 2010 together with o... |
30 August 2011
16:29 GMT |
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Former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg claims to have destroyed thousands of unreleased files received by the secrets-spilling organization in order to protect sources.Domscheit-Berg, who has been involved in WikiLeaks since its inception, quit the whistleblowing site in August 2010 amidst internal disagree... |
22 August 2011
13:38 GMT |
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Credit card donations to WikiLeaks were briefly re-opened last Thursday, but lasted only 24 hours with VISA quickly blocking the ban evasion.A month ago, DataCell, the Iceland-based company that used to collect donations on behalf of WikiLeaks, warned VISA and MasterCard that it plans to file a complaint with the Eur... |
11 July 2011
05:18 GMT |
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A dozen House Democrats are calling for a congressional investigation into the actions of technology firms HBGary Federal, Berico Technologies and Palantir Technologies, as well as their partner law firm Hunton & Williams.The probe comes after revelations that the four companies were involved in drafting a plan for B... |
1 March 2011
09:56 GMT |
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PayPal has now responded to the accusations that it had frozen the account of a nonprofit, Courage To Resist, raising money for US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the alleged source of many of WikiLeaks' recent leaks. PayPal had previously blocked the account of WikiLeaks.PayPal has re-instituted the account, but sai... |
25 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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HBGary, the company whose confidential emails were recently leaked by members of the Anonymous collective, denies any involvement in the drafting of a controversial anti-Wikileaks proposal.Two weeks ago, after HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr bragged in the media about discovering the real identities of Anonymous' ... |
19 February 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Palantir Technologies, a software company linked to a recently leaked document proposing attacks against WikiLeaks, has cut all ties with HBGary and apologized for its involvement.The recent hacking into HBGary Federal's servers by Anonymous, which resulted in the leaking of tens of thousands of confidential cor... |
12 February 2011
05:04 GMT |
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A plan drafted by three security consultancy companies to attack and discredit WikiLeaks was leaked onto the Internet as a result of a security breach.The plan is outlined in a confidential presentation called "The WikiLeaks Threat" that was prepared by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies at... |
10 February 2011
05:56 GMT |
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OpenLeaks, the new whistleblower platform created by WikiLeaks defectors, launched its website and promises complete transparency of its processes and finances.According to its creators, OpenLeaks does not just provide a more democratic WikiLeaks, an organization known for being led in an authoritarian manner by Juli... |
28 January 2011
12:48 GMT |
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A security firm says it has evidence to suggest that whistleblower site WikiLeaks has searched for and obtained sensitive documents from P2P networks.Robert Boback, the CEO of Tiversa, a Pennsylvania-based company specializing in peer-to-peer intelligence services, told Bloomberg that "WikiLeaks is doing searches the... |
21 January 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns consumers about phone scams that try to scare them into paying fines in order to avoid imprisonment for visiting the WikiLeaks website.People receive automated phone calls with prerecorded messages, which claim their IP address was caught visiting the WikiLeaks website.They are ... |
20 January 2011
12:37 GMT |
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After being fined yesterday for violating Swiss bank secrecy laws, ex-banker Rudolf Elmer was arrested for recently handing over bank records to WikiLeaks.Elmer, 55, was received a fine of 7,200 Swiss francs (around $7,500), suspended for two years, for leaking information about the bank accounts of tax evading Juliu... |
20 January 2011
08:39 GMT |
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A former banker scheduled to stand trial for breaking Swiss bank secrecy laws handed over two CDs with bank records of 2,000 people that might reveal tax evasion, to WikiLeaks.The data was given to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange during a public event at the Frontline Club and will pass through the organizat... |
17 January 2011
13:29 GMT |
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Twitter has been ordered to reveal all of the data from several accounts associated with WikiLeaks, but the company has managed to send out notifications to those targeted to give them a chance to fight the subpoena. Twitter was initially served a sealed order in December, asking for data on those users, which preven... |
8 January 2011
06:53 GMT |
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The Department of Justice tried to keep secret a court order that forces Twitter to release information and logs about several people known to be associated with WikiLeaks, including American hacker Jacob Applebaum and Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir.Twitter was served with the order on December 14 and was explicitl... |
8 January 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Bank of America (BoA), the largest bank in the United States, has established a team of officials to assess the possible fallout if WikiLeaks releases tens of thousands of its internal documents.At the end of November, in an interview for Forbes, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange revealed that the organization... |
5 January 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Julian Assange, the founder and some say iron-fisted ruler of WikiLeaks, is facing several legal threats and he has now signed a couple of book deals which, he says, will help him fund his and the site's defence if the case may be.He revealed that he has signed a deal with the US publisher Alfred A Knopf, a unit... |
27 December 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Norway's leading newspaper, Aftenposten, claims to have obtained the entire cache of 250,000 U.S. State Department cables believed to be in WikiLeaks' possession, without any strings attached.WikiLeaks has been gradually releasing cables instead of dumping the whole archive, in order to give each of them th... |
23 December 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Apple mistakenly approved and then quickly removed a WikiLeaks iOS application developed by Hint Solutions for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. According to a cached Google search, the app, which gave instant access to the world’s most documented leakage of top secret memos and other confidential government ... |
21 December 2010
05:12 GMT |
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